I find it very ironic that the first ad i see is for the HP49g.

HP helps u guys before TI?

You know what, I wonder what the people at HP are thinking, looking at their webservers and seeing the greatest number of hits for April 1st being from ticalc.org... if this weren't really April Fools [which it is, come on guys, every year some other trick is pulled and everyone believes it, don't tell me you actually believe this one too] ticalc can make lots of money off of it :)

[hey, do retired staff members get to share the profit too? :)]

Thats right...I remember the first time I checked ticalc.org on April 1st. I was fooled....but then after the humiliation I realized that they do this every year when they did it again last year.

Last year, the April fools thing was in the red border( hence, the fake news ), disregard this if it is wrong.

Haha, Ahmed...thats what I'm saying :)

-Corey

I never seen any TI ads. By the way TI is acting,(which is very snotty and unrelatable to the community, with the exception of the CD project) I would say that TI has no banner ads.

How much will ticalc get from ti for the CD project?

If it is enough to fund ticalc for perpetuality I will gladly offer my programs for the cd project, even though I was planning on not doing so because of the stuff that ti has put into the hw2 calcs.


-Samuel

now that i think about it, it seems a lot like an april fools prank. The advertisement at the bottom of this page is a ti-81 page which has a program archive that features a gas pump program that you:

"Use this at the gas pump. Enter the amount of gas pumped, and the number of miles since the last time you got gas, and it tells you what your gas mileage is."

I suspect that the page was put together by TIcalc. the page is just to crappy to actually be someone's page. and if it is somone's page, then they could be really offended by it being used in a joke.

Joey: Well this is Joey M. reporting live in ticalc.org we had a major dispute on the ads on ticalc.org, Magnus what do you have to say?

Magnus: Well...Joey...We didn't have enough money for ticalc.org

Joey: everything is so sudden. First comes the CD thing now comes ads, what are you guys triing to pull. You just want us to fall for your little master plan to millionaires correct?

Magnus: No that is not true we just did this because we want the ads to support ticalc.org while we do other important jobs in life to earn $$$, you have no choice do you? its either us or the other crapy sites.

Magnus: (beating the living crap out of Joey)

Joey: This is Joey M reporting live from ticalc.org

(back on channel 230 headquarter in NY)

Host: Thank you Joey for the reporting in ticalc.org. This message was brought to you by AD1.

This totally unrelated, but Magnus kinda looks like someone used to know called Andrew Hoffman.

Note the creation date on that page. Today.

oops.... that was someone's page. but it was virtually unknown before this incident. yesterday at this time it had about 400 on the hit counter, now it's over 1000. That's a 150% increase, in one day!

I hope that guy never writes another webpage for the rest of his life. He should get a job pumping gas at a full serve station in Mexico or something. He would at least be good at that

Absoutely nothing below this line is true

I have recently released a wonderful program for the TI-89 that actually allows the usage of 65535 vibrant colors without any modifacation to the hardware.

Absoutely nothing above this line, with the exception of the first line, is true.

Well, I hope the Ads thing on Ticalc is as fake as what I mentioned above.

Which means that you DON'T hope the ads thing is fake. Why is that?

Not necessarily. Note the "Absoutely nothing above this line, with the exception of the first line, is true." If the first line is true then that would make this statement true because the second line is false. The first line also says that this line is false, though, a contradiction. In other words, it says in two different ways that the third line is true and false. Therefore, there is no information about whether or not the last line is true. I would assume that it is true due to the normal sentiment on this site.

I don't think that ticalc will receive any compensation beyond a mere reimbursement for expenses (if there are any). Otherwise there would be legal problems with accepting payment for distributing others' works.

Reading the news about the cd project i gather that ticalc was going to have a signup form where people agreed to have thier programs on the cd. And there might be some fine print that nobody reads that says that ticalc will recieve money from ti for the distribution.

Hmmm... I didn't know non-profit organizations could have commercial banners.

Yes, but is ticalc.org making any money off this, or is it just funding the page?

what else can they do if they are broke, this isnt welfare

Think charity. BTW, anyone notice that the message was posted at EXACTLY 00:00 GMT on April 1?

Which is all the more reason to suspect April Fools

Also notice that the time on the article is 00:00. All previous April Fools articles have been posted around midnight UTC. That should be a hint.

i did notice... i posted about the time as well

I saw that, but it didn't appear until after I had written my comment.